WORK FOR BOYS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20282, 17 April 1934, Page 6

WORK FOR BOYS.

Farm Training to Start This Week. Possession of the thirty-acre farm on which the Christchurch Boys’ Employment Committee hopes to give unemployed boys some experience the better to fit them for farming positions was taken yesterday, when the manager, Mr F. L. Patterson, took up his quarters in the house on the property. It is expected that the first batch of about half a dozen boys will be taken on to the farm towards the end of this week. “We have been enabled to go into this scheme through the liberality of the public of Christchurch,” stated Mr W. M’Allister, one of the principals concerned with the arrangements, yesterday. “We will receive a certain amount of assistance from the Unemployment Board, and it is hoped to make the farm self-supporting.. “It is expected that each group of boys will undergo a farm course of from two to three months and will then be replaced by another batch. The boys will sleep at their homes, and will bring a midday lunch if their homes are some distance away.” The property is being leased for a term of three years from Mr K. Hatfield. It is down in grass, and is fairly heavy land except for a small sandy portion adjoining the Avondale Golf Club’s course, and on which there is a good lucerne stand.